Peter Pomerantsev
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"A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st-century Russia: into the lives of oligarchs convinced they are messiahs, professional killers with the souls of artists, Bohemian theater directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, supermodel sects, post-modern dictators, and playboy revolutionaries. This is a world erupting with new money and new power, changing so fast it breaks all sense of reality, where life is seen as a whirling, glamorous...
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« La Russie moderne est une vaste télé-réalité, à commencer par le Kremlin lui-même. »
De la Sibérie, o les gangsters produisent leurs propres séries télé et tirent à balles réelles, à Moscou, o les orphelines ukrainiennes rêvent d'être enlevées par un Poutine charmant, la machine médiatique orchestrée par le Kremlin travaille la psyché russe avec les recettes d'Hollywood et de la BBC. Un reality show permanent qui berce les...
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xv, 236 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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We live in a world of influence operations run amok, where dark ads, psyops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, and Trump seek to shape our very reality. In this surreal atmosphere created to disorient us and undermine our sense of truth, we've lost not only our grip on peace and democracy--but our very notion of what those words even mean. The author takes us to the front lines of the disinformation age, where he meets Twitter revolutionaries...
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